Hangin' Out With: Justin Florek (Boston Bruins)

Justin Florek

Key facts

What’s one thing most people don’t know
about you? “My mom taught me how to skate. She was
actually a student at Northern Michigan, and she would take me
between classes.”

Do you have any phobias? “I’m so
afraid of spiders. Snakes, everything I’m fine with, but
throw a spider in front of me, and I’m running in the
opposite direction.”

If you could hang out with any celebrity, who would it
be? “Bill Dance or Charlie Moore, I love fishing
— it would be awesome to fish with those guys. Hopefully I
could teach them a thing or two. As soon as I got drafted, (being
on Charlie Moore’s show) was one of my goals.”

What’s your favorite thing to do in Providence
away from the rink? “Fishing, yeah, Rhode
Island’s the Ocean State, and there’s so much water,
but so is going to the beach with my wife and daughter.”

What’s the most embarrassing thing that’s
happened to you on the ice? “When I first started
playing, I think I was a Mite, I got a penalty, and I cried so hard
that another kid on my team sat in the penalty box for
me.”

If you could be a superhero, who would you be and
why? “Batman, just because he has so many cool
vehicles I’d love to drive. It would be pretty sweet to hang
out in his lair.”

If they made a movie about your life, who would play
you? “I don’t even know how to answer that. My
favorite actor is Adam Sandler, but he would not play
me.”